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Alice Perrers is the main character in Vanora Bennett 's 2010 novel The People's Queen. She is a character in Jean Plaidy 's Vow on the Heron. She is portrayed in Rebecca Gablé 's Das Lächeln der Fortuna, a historical novel in the German language about the time-period.
Alice Perrers was the mistress of King Edward III of England. She exercised great influence at the aging monarch’s court from about 1369 until 1376. She belonged probably to the Hertfordshire family of Perrers, although it is also stated that she was of more humble birth.
Mar 18, 2017 · Alice Perrers is known in history as the mistress of King Edward III of England (1312 – 1377) in his later years. She had become his mistress by 1363 or 1364, when she was probably about 15-18 years old, and he was 52.
Aug 18, 2021 · 18th August 2021. Born 1348, Alice Perrers was an English royal mistress whose lover and patron was King Edward III of England. While there is no record of her birth,...
Jan 14, 2019 · For centuries Alice Perrers has been portrayed as an ugly but intelligent woman, who seduced a King, took him for all she could get, and then disappeared in to a quiet retirement. But recent work by historians, particularly around documents held at the National Archives, have managed to draw out a more rounded picture.
Alice Perrers. (c. 1330—1400) royal mistress. Quick Reference. Notorious as the mistress of the ageing Edward III, at whose court she exerted great influence and patronage; she fled abroad following Edward's death, and her property was confiscated. It ... From: Perrers, Alice in The Oxford Companion to Chaucer »
Alice Perrers, who was the mistress of the English king Edward III, probably belonged to the Hertfordshire family of Perrerses, though there was some talk that she was of more humble origins, possibly the daughter of a tiler from Essex.
